Ok, so CoT #27 - What Lies In Dust
The first portion of the adventure is trying to track down the missing/dead Pathfinders to interrogate them. They are trying to gather information on the Pathfinder Lodge so they can be "more prepared for the danger's they'll face in Delvehaven".
The seance with Ghaelfin, I'm looking at what information the players get on the Lodge that will help them... here it is "When Delvehaven was sealed, lodge wizards laced the halls with magical traps and activated several guardians, Ghaelfin did not pay much attention to the details"
Ok.. so my players are not going to be happy to find out that they participated in the Hellcup to get information that tells them basically "nothing" other than, go find Corina, she can be found over at this place.
On to the seance with Coriana, here is what she can tell them about Delvehaven from the text. "Bisby remained inside after it was sealed."
That's it. I mean she can talk about Cutlass Cove and tell them about the key to get into the extra-dimensional space so they can go get some treasure, but they are going to want to know about the lodge's defenses and traps... but the text for Ghaelfin and Coriana have nothing really helpful on that front.
Any ideas on what tidbits I could share with the players about the Lodge from these two spirits? Thanks.
Nope - my group skipped all the preview work and went straight to the Lodge after the cove. Frankly, it didn't seem to hurt their fun at all.
Ok, so CoT #27 - What Lies In Dust
Any ideas on what tidbits I could share with the players about the Lodge from these two spirits? Thanks.
I actually used those spirits to heavily detail backstory on SIvanshin/Bisby, since he's such a big deal later. In particular with Coriana, I tossed in a love triangle--Siv loved Coriana, saw her embrace Bisby when the two of them returned safely, and got ticked enough to make off with the Totemrix.
WIth Ghaelfin, I provided a third-party perspective on the love triangle, and some of the Bisby backstory as well.
A lot of it depends on what the party askes--in all the seances, I let them plan out their questions, then ask away--I just tried to add tidbits of story along with their answers.
For what it's worth, I think I wrote up a cipher for Cugney's Wedding elsewhere in this forum--it might give your players something to look at for that part of the investigation!
